Enclosure 3A - Project Summary Form
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Wildland Urban Interface Fuels / Education and
Prevention / Community Planning for Fire Protection Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Friends of the Greensprings
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 482-2859
(541) 482-2859
johnward @ qwest.net
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
15097 Highway 66, Ashland OR 97520
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
John Ward, Chairman
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Friends of the Greensprings
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
(541) 482-2859
(541) 482-2859
johnward @ qwest.net
Project Information
Project Title:
FOG Community Fuels Reduction Project
Project Start:
Project End:
June 1, 2002
May 31, 2004
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$96,292
$176,054
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
no
Brief Project Description:
This project asks landowners to join and cost share in a voluntary effort to reduce fuels and
create Defensible Space around their homesites. Heavy fuel loads, hot dry summers and rapid
residential development put homeowners and the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in peril.
Project reduces fuels at 131 homesites, reduces ladder fuels on critical access and escape roads
for 30 homeowners, and builds a community fuel break protecting 12 homes. Total area treated is
about 248 private acres, including 203 adjacent to or intermingled in the Cascade-Siskiyou National
Monument and 45 acres about one mile distant.
Last year, Friends of the Greensprings (FOG), a 350-member community based 501c(3)
organization field checked fuel loads, mapped high fire danger areas, developed 146 requests for
ODF consultation visits, and helped to create I-acre Defensible Spaces at 115 residential
homesites. Funding this project will provide Defensible Space at half the 484 rural households.
Project Location:
County:
Congressional District:
adjacent to Cascade-Siskiyou NM
Jackson County
Dist. 2, Rep. Greg Walden
Project Type: Check appropriate project type. More than one type may be checked. If only Box (4) is checked, use Enclosure 4.
(1)
(2)
Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Project
Wildland Urban Interface Education and Prevention Project
(3)
(4)
Community Planning for Fire Protection Project
Fuels Utilization and Marketing Project
If the applicant is an unincorporated area, define the geographic area being represented:
Townships 38S, 39S, 40South; Range 2E, 3E, 4East
Enclosure 3B (Page 1 of 3) - Project Narrative Description
Applications for funding must include a narrative response that describes the proposal. Please do not submit responses longer than one page,
single space, 12-pitch font.
Describe project including, but not limited to:
 project location
Address these
 project implementation
items as
 anticipated outcomes
applicable:
 measures and reporting
 partners
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project income
project time frames
specify types of activities and equipment used
amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc)
environmental, cultural and historical resource requirements
This project asks landowners adjacent to or intermingled in Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
to join a voluntary community effort to reduce fuels and create Defensible Space around their homesites.
About 75,000 acres of checkerboard BLM and private lands extend east of Interstate 5 in a band 11 miles
wide centered on the Greensprings Highway (Oregon Hwy. 66). Heavy fuel loads, hot dry summers and
rapid residential development put the homeowners and the Monument in peril. BLM data since 1965 show
370 fires occurred in the project area, over half human-caused; the last major fire was in 1936.
Response:
Last year, Friends of the Greensprings (FOG), a 350-member community based 501c(3) organization
completed a 45,000 acre Emigrant Creek Wildfire/Wildlife/Watershed Assessment. Fuel loads were field
checked, high fire danger areas mapped, 146 homeowners requested ODF fire consultation visits, and 115
created 1-acre Defensible Spaces. More fuel reduction work is needed. FOG is now assessing the adjoining
26,000-acre Keene Creek Wildfire/Wildlife/Watershed. This proposal would add another 4,000 acres and
fund fuels reduction across the 75,000-acre project and increase overlap with C-S NM to 80%.
The project will reduce fuels at 131 homesites, provide critical access and escape for 30 homeowners, and
build a community fuel break protecting 12 Greensprings homes. Fully funded, projects treat 247.7 acres,
202.7 acres within the Monument and 45 acres about one mile distant. Priorities are as follows:
(1) Provide project outreach; process requests; plan, schedule and coordinate fuels work. $ 15,170
Provide 1-acre Defensible Space fuel reduction to priorities (2), (3), and (4):
(2) 8 homesites of bedridden or low income residents not served in 2001 using volunteers,
4,800
Northwest Seasonal Workers, or Community Justice workers and equipment.
(3) 51 homesites within 8 mapped high fire danger areas on a 50:50 cost share basis
10,200
with landowners.
(4) 24 inholding homesites or businesses on a 50:50 cost share basis with landowners.
6,672
(5) Critical Access 100-foot ladder fuel reduction and fireline anchor point on Steinman
3,320
Drive (600-feet) and Conifer Way (1000-feet).
(6) Community Fuel Break 100-foot along North Rim skid road on Keene Creek.
1,350
(7) Provide 1-acre Defensible Space fuel reduction at 48 homesites adjacent to C-S NM
15,840
lands on a 50:50 cost share basis with landowners.
(8) Provide 5-acre Extended Fuel Breaks at Defensible Space homesite from 2001 totaling 38,940
110 acres on a 75:25 cost share basis.
TOTAL
$ 96,292
FOG will provide ODF about 150 individual homeowner requests for fire consultation. ODF will provide
field pre- and post-inspection at each home or project and, if approved authorize work to begin. Landowners
will have all responsibility and liability for workers, work methods, job safety and contract payment, are
expected to take responsibility for accomplishing tasks on their workplans, and will provide interim funding
for any work contracted to others. Contractors will be engaged by landowners at their discretion, and will
look to landowners for satisfaction of all contract terms. ODF will process approved fire workplans, and
provide payment direct to landowners on all completed projects. BLM-Medford District will be advised of all
workplan sites for environmental, cultural and historical resource requirements.
Enclosure 3B (Page 2 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following four criteria. Within each criterion, subcriteria are listed in descending order of importance. Limit your responses to the areas provided.
1. Reducing Fire Risk. (40 points))
A. Describe how the proposal promotes reduction of risk in high hazard areas or communities.
B. Describe how the proposed project benefits resources on federal land or adjacent non-federal land, or how it protects the safety
of communities.
C. To what extent does the project implement or create a cooperative fuels treatment plan or community fire strategy (include
evidence of the plan if it already exists)?
D. Explain to what extent the affected community or proponent has been involved or plans to involve the affected community in a
qualified fuels education program (e.g., FIREWISE).
E. Explain how the proposal (a) leads to, enhances or restores a local fire-adapted ecosystem, and/or (b) mitigates or leads to the
mitigation of hazardous fuel conditions.
F. How will the proposed treatments be maintained over time?
This proposal targets 291 of 484 rural households in very high hazard fuels for voluntary homesite
fuel reduction and community fuel breaks in 8 neighborhoods or scattered for 9 miles along the Greensprings
Highway. Eighty % of the targets are adjacent to or intermingled with C-S NM. Checkerboard ownership is
half federal, a quarter industrial forest, and a quarter rural residential which is where most fires have started.
FOG’s 10-year community effort of frequent fire meetings and training, phone lists, fire tool group
purchase, water source development, and multi-year workplan helped neighbors reduce ignition and prevent
fire escape. In 2001 FOG included fire topics during 14 neighborhood meetings at member’s homes, and
sponsored four training events. Last year FOG began asking residents to reduce homesite fuels; Defensible
Space was created at 115 homesites with funding through ODF. Funds requested in this WUI proposal will
add 131 more homesites and will bring fuel reduction to over half the 484 homesites across 75,000 acres.
Aggressive fire suppression following selective and clearcut harvesting has possibly been too successful,
and greatly altered the local fire-adapted ecosystem. Where fuels treatment thins overstocked second growth
stands and reduces ladder fuels, forest sites will gain some forest health and fire resilience on private lands.
More time will be needed to treat federal lands.
This proposal helps landowners learn that fuels maintenance is part of their long term land stewardship
and builds on landowners seeing fuels treatment that are pleasant places to live, and wanting to learn how to
take increased responsibility for their lands.
Response:
2. Increasing local capacity. (30 points)
A. How would the proposal improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and sustainable economic
activity? How many jobs are expected to be created or retained and for how long (please distinguish between essentially yearround and seasonal jobs)?
B. To what extent will this project be offered to serve as a model for other communities?
C. Will biomass or forest fuels be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
Homesite fuel reduction begins a process of landowner involvement which sustains local jobs for
thinning, pruning, and slash disposal initially on 1-acre, but later on 5-acre extended fuel breaks, forest
management plans, and forest stand improvement. Last year ten % of homeowners (55-acres total) began 5acre hazard mitigation work with contractors, and seven committed to SIP management plans (518-acre total)
which will add future jobs. Currently 11 individuals actively work year-round in the proposal area, three as
forestry consultants or on five fuels crews. Contract excavator work for brush removal and water source
ponds, and two portable sawmill contractors are used as needed. The BLM and ODF will co-fund a yearround Community Forest Officer to handle the increased workload; Service Forester will continue
FOG presented its wildfire program recently to CAC’s from Illinois Valley, Merlin, and Wolf Creek, and
will continue to be an available model for other Oregon communities. FOG’s integration of wildfire planning
with wildlife values and watershed protection across all ownerships is being presented at SWO Restoration
Roundtables and Society of Ecologic Restoration conferences in 2002.
Poles, rails and posts are the main utilization products, with some on-site lumber milling for owner use;
possibly these total 10 mbm. Fire wood, both soft and hardwood, are used to reduce landowner expense and
marketed commercially or kept for owner use.
Response:
Enclosure 3B (Page 3 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
3. Increasing interagency and intergovernmental coordination. (15 Points)
A. Describe how this project implements a local intergovernmental strategy plan, or creates such a plan. Describe the plan if it
already exists.
B. Explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning among federal, state, tribal, local government and
community organizations. List the cooperators.
This project helps implement cohesive and cooperative federal, state, county and local fire district
plans. BLM and ODF are developing a Prevention Protection Plan for C-S NM, with joint funding of ODF
personnel to work with FOG, with residents, and with the public. FOG works with ODF and Fire District 5
on structural and wildfire planning and delivery of fire services, and with ODF and Jackson County on
implementation of SB 360. FOG requested and BLM has contracted a 17-acre Tyler Creek Fuels Project to
demonstrate for area residents fuels reduction under NWFP rules. FOG will build an interpretive trail with
signage.
Other coordination with federal partners includes three project area EAs, two BLM and one BOR, and
USFWS Klamath Ecosystem Restoration funding for private lands fire hazards. BLM will help this project
meet regulatory requirements such as NEPA, SHPO, and ESA on private lands if required. USFS, NRCS,
and Farm Service Agency also provide on-the-ground advice and support. State agency help is routinely
provided by ODFW, ODEQ, and OSU Forestry Extension.
There is a high level of continuing contact and coordination between SWO fire organizations. For two
years FOG has periodically convened an inter-agency federal and state group to address gap and overlap
problems affecting landowners. FOG works with many agency partners on fire risk and hazard: Fire District
5, Talent Irrigation District, Jackson County Parks, Jackson County Roads, ODOT roads, Oregon Parks,
ODF, BLM and BOR. Corporate partners include Boise (formerly Boise Cascade) and US Timber; contact is
maintained with J.H.Baxter, Timber Products, Superior Lumber, Central Oregon Pacific Railroad and other
firms.
Response:
4. Expanding Community Participation. (15 Points)
A. To what extent have interested people and communities been provided an opportunity to become informed and involved in this
proposal?
B. Describe the extent of local support for the project, including any cost-sharing arrangements.
C. What are the environmental, social and educational benefits of the project?
FOG invites all landowners, businesses and agencies to events and activities, and values their input
and experience. The approach is inclusive and transparent, and results in informed and involved participants.
FOG’s Wildfire Committee includes representative from all neighborhoods which provides a local contact for
residents. The mailing list is maintained regularly for resident and non-resident landowners, and reminder
telephone calls are made to key contacts and involved parties.
Asking landowners to participate and cost share in a grassroots community wildfire effort has been well
received and very successful. Having neighbors invite neighbors, including three generations by hosting
family events, and publicly recognizing individual action has helped build a firewise community culture.
Defensible Space participation was 100% on Tyler Creek last year, and ODF said they liked FOG’s approach
since it reduced whining. Businesses and industrial neighbors are considered part of the community, and are
involved wherever appropriate.
The project benefits the whole community by dissolving differences and facing a shared threat together.
Helping impatient landowners understand why complex processes work across time and space begins an
educational process which needs to reach their whole family. Helping landowners understand how their
actions affect neighbors begins a social process which can be reinforced by a sense of place and common
interest. For many landowners understanding the environmental complexity takes more time than they will
invest which reinforces the need for explaining why and developing a trusting relationship with landowners
as individuals who will support what needs doing next.
Response:
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Attend FOG Wildfire Committee meetings.
Update Neighborhood mailing lists.
June, 2002 to June 2004
Community Coordinator
July to November, 2002
Community Coordinator
October, 2002 to
June, 2004
Community Coordinator
Schedule Neighborhood meetings.
Mail Neighborhood meeting invitations.
Provide telephone followup.
Arrange and host Neighborhood meetings.
Process fire consultation requests to
ODF
Report status to Wildfire Committee
and to FOG Board
Identify Fuel Break sites and
coordinate field work
with Fuel Break Coordinator
November, 2002
Community Coordinator and
Flag sites, write prescription,
get landowner authorization,
utility clearances and contractor
participation
December, 2002 to
June 2003
Fuel Break Coordinator
Generate special lists for ODF
seasonal crews
January , 2003
Community Coordinator and
Fuel Break Coordinator
Fuel Break Coordinator
Schedule and host Recognition events.
Arrange Publicity
October 2003 and
October 2004
Community Coordinator
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Personnel
Community Coordinator
CooCoordinator
Fuel
Break Coordinator
Subtotal
10,570
1,200
$11,770
Applicant
FOG
Partner 1
Partner 2
ODF
Landowners
Total
10,570
1,200
11,770
Fringe Benefits
none
Subtotal
Travel
Coordinator travel
Subtotal
Equipment
Chipper rental
Subtotal
Supplies
Printing/postage
Office & field supplies
Subtotal
Contractual
Fuel reduction contracts
Processed by ODF
Subtotal
180
180
$180
180
840
840
$840
840
1,650
570
2,220
1,650
570
$2,220
80,282
23,250
$80,282
$23,250
Other
Office and Fiscal Admin
Project Management and GIS
Subtotal
$1,000
6,150
6,150
Total Costs
$96,292
$6,150
50,362
$50,362
153,894
153,894
1,000
6,150
7,150
1,000
$23,250
$50,362
$176,054
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
Program income is the gross revenue generated by a grant or cooperative agreement supported activity during the life of
the grant. Program income can be made by recipients from fees charged for conference or workshop attendance, from rental
fees earned from renting out real property or equipment acquired with grant or cooperative agreement funds, or from the sale
of commodities or items developed under the grant or cooperative agreement. The use of Program Income during the
project period may require prior approval by the granting agency.
$0.00